Mike's Afternoon Agenda

I helped pack food supplies for the families and then helped deliver some of these packages with Mauro and Pastor Bata. The deliver of the packages were very biblical, because:

• We delivered to an elderly women who live alone without support.
• We delivered to a disabled men and women who can't leave their front door.
• We delivered to a 100% blind lady and her 80% blind husband who couldn't leave the house.
• We delivered to a family of five who are new to the church who needed food because the husband is out of work and cannot find work (for a very long time). He asked Mauro and I if we had troubles like this. We were able to share our life story with them. We shared the time when Mauro and I were out of work and could not provide for our families and had to rely on God. He was encouraged because Mauro and I understand what he's going through.
• We also delivered to Pastor Bata's father who is disabled and lives alone. The blessing in the delivery was we were able to see a picture of Bata's mother who prayed Him to come to Christ.

Each and every place opened their homes to us, giving us food, beverage and sitting in a place of honor. They gave out of nothing..

I can't tell you how humbling this is when people have nothing to give and still give. For me it challenges me deeply to do my life for others much better. To take it to a much higher level. Some of these people are nonbelievers, they just need help. This little church in Serbia has an amazing compassion for the weak, to see the needs and meet them as much as they possibly can, is a model for our Western Church.

We have so much to learn, we have so much selfishness to eliminate, we need to learn how to sacrifice and we need to learn what this church does on a daily basis. The trick I am learning, these people care and give for us out of nothing and most Americans can't even serve and share out of their prosperity.

We have so much to learn, we need to act on it at home and abroad.